English: Kristallnacht; literally "Crystal night" or the "Night of Broken Glass", also "November Pogrom", was a pogrom in Nazi Germany on November 9–10, 1938. In one single night 92 Jews were murdered and 25,000–30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camps. The Nazis coordinated the attack on Jewish people and their property in Germany and German-controlled lands as part of Führer Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic policy. The orders were given by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels.

pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938; so named due to shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed